I have heard that alfalfa sprouts have a much higher tendency to be contaminated with salmonella or e coli than other sprouts. Not exactly sure why, but according to This Information it is not that the sprouts are contaminated after the fact (like if they were laying in contaminated water or grown in contaminated soil, or even handled by contaminated hands or equipment) but by the original seeds being contaminated themselves. That was something I wasn’t aware of until just now, I always thought it was due to the surroundings in which the sprouts were grown.
The fact that sprouts have to be grown in a warm moist environment, is another problem, because that is the perfect conditions to make bacteria grow. Yikes!
I love radish sprouts, but I never eat alfalfa sprouts (the most common type that you get on a sandwich at a restaurant) but that is because I had heard that they were particularly susceptible to harboring bacteria.
And Further Eeeeeeeek! I feel like running away from my refrigerator, which as you probably know is full of fruits and veggies. And then there’s This
I think I may have to rethink my ideas about sprouts and possibly put them on the don’t eat list : (